Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.